This violin has a repair date of 1894. You can see it's been played very much throughout the years - that's a great sign the violin has an excellent tone. This violin has impressed every professional that has picked it up, from an esteemed college director, a violinist with their Masters' Degree, to a professional fiddler. They all kept going back to this beauty.
LOB: 359mm
UB: 167mm
MB: 115mm
LB: 204mm
YouTube Sound sample:
https://youtu.be/dhiwJPupRJo
The violin experts believe this violin hails from Bohemia, Germany (Saxony), or Czechoslovakia.
It has new strings Il Cannone. Comes with the case and bow in the photos.
The neck has been properly adjusted to the right height and overstand. In the process the neck was discovered to be grafted at the neck root. So the neck appears to have been replaced during its life.
Every Millimeter matters, and is crucial on a violin. One millimeter difference on the bridge height, or string height, makes the difference between an effortless playing violin, or one that's difficult and hard to play.
It's the Formula One (F1) sports car of instruments. They are hand built and therefore unique, each requires a great deal of attention and precision for the player. That's why violins purchased from mass markets like Amazon are frowned upon, they typically don't get the attention and fine details right that ensure a violin is at its peak for the player. It takes a skilled craftsman or luthier to ensure everything is correct from the tail piece, to the sound post, to the bridge, string height, and pegs just to name a few of the hundreds of variables that come together to make a great sounding violin.
Each violin sold here has been reviewed to ensure the violin is performance ready, and set up properly for the player.
